[Praxeologue]

It looks like it is a way to get around campaign finance law. According to this link, the campaign released a lot of raw footage so that his pacs could use them for ads without having “official” contact with the Cruz campaign. Looks pretty sleazy;

It took an anti-Cruz group to selectively edit the material and splice it together to paint Cruz in as bad a light as possible. As such, it is a hit piece. In putting all that uncut material on YouTube, in the public domain, Cruz demonstrated how candid and trusting he was being, unlike, as noted, the standard procedure used by other campaigns.

[Amntn]

I agree with you about it being spliced and diced and being a hit piece on Cruz.

However, I disagree with you about Cruz being candid and trusting.

He put it on the internet in that form so that his pacs could use it in ads on his behalf.

That act is trying to skirt campaign finance law and is sleazy.

I’m sure all of the other campaigns who rely on pacs and super pacs do the same thing but it does not change the fact that the purpose is to skirt campaign finance laws.